Thanks for the input everyone. I have the correct ports forwarded. I am sure of that. Derrick, I don't want to leave the card vulnerable to hacking and if I understand DMZ, wont that in fact be the case? Maybe not, I don't know? I know I can get it to work by simply giving it a public static IP address, but I only have have 1 public usable and need to use it for remote system admin and the VOIP card. That is why I wanted to use port forwarding. One thing that is throwing me off is that the manual says if you are using NAT, it has to be 1:1 NAT? I am still curious as to whether or not the carriers modem needs to be in bridge mode or not also? This seems to be more of a networking issue rather than a system issue, so that is why I posted it in this forum.Thanks in advance for more input!

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